ADDISONIA 37 
(Plate 179) 
STEPHANANDRA TANAKAE 
Large-leaved Stephanandra 
Native of Japan 
Family RosacEAk Rosez Family 
Stephanandra Tanakae Franch. & Sav. Enum, Pl. Jap. 2: 332. 1879. 
‘Of the two species of this genus in cultivation, the other being 
Siephanandra incisa, this is to be preferred on account of its more 
robust habit, larger leaves with more character, and greater clusters 
of larger flowers; at the New York Botanical Garden it has also 
proved somewhat hardier, the branchlets not killing back so much 
in winter. It is a graceful shrub, well adapted to shrub borders 
or rocky banks, and is of easy culture, its requirements being met 
by any ordinary garden soil. It may be readily propagated by 
seeds, or by greenwood cuttings under glass; also by division. Z 
It is a native of the Hakone mountains in Japan, and was origin- 
ally collected on the slopes of Fuji-yama. The specimen from 
which the illustration was prepared was secured by exchange with 
the Royal Gardens, Kew, England, in 1901, at which institution 
specimens flowered in 1897 raised from seed secured directly from 
Japan in 1893. 
The genus Stephanandra contains four known species, three of 
these being natives of Japan and one of China. It is closely related 
to Opulaster, the nine-bark, and to Spiraea. 
The large-leaved stephanandra is a graceful shrub of paced ne 
habit, often eee a height of four or five feet and as great 
breadth. nches are ascending or spreading and have ‘wench 
bark. The ene: are alternate on short petioles, which about equal 
the deciduous stipules. The blades are up S two inches long, not 
quite so broad, are broadly ovate in outline, and are three-lobed, 
the lateral lobes being smaller, all the lobes seg t lobed and serrate; 
they are wees on the upper surface, pales on the nerves 
beneath, and are membranous and light green, changing to a 
golden yellow in the fall. The small flowers are in pendulous 
panicles up to four inches long. The calyx is yellow, its five acute 
lobes ovate and pubescent. ‘The five white petals, which are about 
as long as the cal packet: are oblong-ovate, spreading and puberu- 
ous. The egal are fifteen to twenty, the anthers on short 
filaments. ‘The ovary has a terminal short style and a capitate 
stigma. "The capsule is Sicke opening jrevaldey at the base, 
and is two-seeded. GEoRGE V. NASH. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE. Fig. 1.—Flowering branch. Fig. 2.—Flower, X 4. 
Fig. 3.—Fruit, < 4. 
